Posted on 04/22/2008 4:24:46 AM PDT by nyscof
Fluoride exposure is rising and causing childrens tooth imperfections, ranging from white spots to brownish discolorations and pitting (fluorosis), dentist Elivir Dincer reports in the New York State Dental Journal. (1)
Such changes in the tooths appearance can affect the childs self-esteem which makes early prevention that much more critical, writes Dincer.
Children, aged 2 to 7 years, can swallow about one-quarter milligram of fluoride with every brushing because their swallowing reflexes are not fully developed, reports Dincer.
Children from the age of 6-months to 3-years should not have more than one-quarter milligram of fluoride per day. Brushing the teeth of a 2-year-old twice a day will expose the child to about one-half milligram, exceeding the allowable [daily] limits [from toothpaste alone], writes Dincer.
Intentionally swallowing the toothpaste which is likely, given the pleasant flavor of childrens toothpaste, increases childrens fluorosis risk, Dincer reports.
Fluoridated water, supplements, mouth rinses and/or foods add to daily fluoride intake.
Up to 48% of children have fluorosis, with 4% moderate/severe (yellow/brown teeth), reports the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (2). Fluoride over-exposure at ages 22- to 25-months can discolor the permanent two front teeth while they form under the gums.
Two-thirds of US water suppliers add fluoride chemicals to reduce tooth decay. This fluoridated water is used to make many foods and beverages. (3) Water and processed beverages (e.g., soft drinks and fruit juices) can provide approximately 75% of a person's fluoride intake, according to the CDC. (4)
Mixing infant formula with fluoridated water (5), fluoride supplements (6) and foods with naturally higher fluoride levels, such as tea and ocean fish, independently increase risk of dental fluorosis. Fluoride-containing pesticide residues remain on various foods. Fluoride is also inhaled via ocean and shower mist and is in some medicines.
The adequate intake of fluoride from ALL sources to avoid moderate fluorosis (not mild white spots) according to the National Academies of Science (9) is
-- 0.01 mg/day for 0 to 6-month-olds
-- 0.5 mg/day for 7 through 12 months
-- 0.7 mg/day for 1 to 3-year-olds
Why isn't this information reaching the public?
In 2000, dental researcher AK Mascarenhas wrote, There is substantial evidence that fluoridated water, fluoride supplements, infant formulas, and fluoride toothpastes are risk factors for fluorosis, alone and together in Risk factors for Dental Fluorosis: A review of the recent literature, in Pediatric Dentistry, 4/22/2000.
Its obvious that fluoridation is dosing our children with uncontrollable and undesirable amounts of fluoride, says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. Besides affecting teeth, fluoride can be hazardous to your general health, he says. "Since fluoride is neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth and no child is, or ever was, fluoride deficient, it's time we stop adding unnecessary and costly fluoride chemicals into water supplies," says Beeber.
Over 1600 professionals joined Environmental Protection Agency scientists in calling for an end to fluoridation. (7) Join the over 11,000 individuals supporting them by signing the petition asking for a Congressional investigation at http://congress.FluorideAction.Net or http://www.FluorideAction.Net
References:
1) Why Do I Have White Spots on My Front Teeth, by Elvir Dincer, DDS, New York State Dental Journal, January 2008, Page 58 Volume 74, Number 1
http://www.nysdental.org/img/current-pdf/JrnlJan2008.pdf
2) Surveillance for Dental Caries, Dental Sealants, Tooth Retention, Edentulism and Dental Fluorosis, CDC, MMWR August 2005
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/s403a1t23.gif
3) USDA National Fluoride Database of Selected Beverages and Foods 2004 http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/Fluoride/Fluoride.html
4) US Centers for Disease Control Enamel Fluorosis http://www.cdc.gov/FLUORIDATION/safety/enamel_fluorosis.htm
5a) US Centers for Disease Control Infant Formula and Fluoride http://www.cdc.gov/FLUORIDATION/safety/infant_formula.htm#12
b) Academy of General Dentistry, Monitor Infants Fluoride Intake, March 2007 http://www.agd.org/support/articles/?ArtID=1187
c) American Dental Association, ADA offers interim guidance on infant formula and fluoride, November 2006 http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/pubs/adanews/adanewsarticle.asp?articleid=2212
6) American Dental Association, Evidence Based Dentistry: Systematic Reviews Fluoride Supplements http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/ebd/reviews/fluoride_supplements.asp
7) http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html
8) http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof/_pgg10.php3
9) The National Academies of Science, Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Fluoride,:1997
Hmmm - there is a world of difference between naturally occurring fluoride and man-made, which is the toxic by-product of the aluminum industry.
Let your fingers do the walking. GOOGLE is at the end of your fingers.
So are asbestos, hemlock, uranium, and poison ivy. Natural doesn't mean safe.
It's all natural meaning no preservatives, fragrances, colors, etc. Those are found in regular paste but not this one.
You can get the same paste with or without flouride. They just add flouride for ADA approval. It's probably the closest you can get to natural and get ADA approved.
>>Now the ADA, Centers for Disease Control and the Academy of General Dentistry advises that fluoridated water NOT be mixed with infant formula<<
It’s a big huge scare.
My kids got it, my sister’s kids (now in their thirties) got it, those kid’s children and I see nothing wrong with it.
Maybe with the right tin-foil hat, but like Iodine in salt, it works for me.
Wait until the people who do away with this see what happens to kids teeth. Yup, the ADA doesn’t want a single person to ever get a cavity, yup. And where does their money come from?
First of all, dental fluorosis levels are NOT low. Up to 48% of US school children have it with 4% having severe fluorosis, according to the US Centers for Disease Control
Older children and adults risk SKELETAL fluorosis from too much fluoride. In fact, recently a 52-year-old American man’s arthritic-like joint pain and immobility went away after he stopped brushing his teeth with fluoridated toothpaste, according to a study in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
Dental fluorosis is like the canary in a cave. It’s the visible sign of fluoride toxicity.
>>Once the teeth have erupted brushing with fluoride can not cause fluorosis -— unless the child swallows the toothpaste while other teeth are still forming. Absorption of fluoride through oral mucosal membranes must be extremely minimal mechanism given the great quantity of fluoride-containing toothpastes marketed and the extremely low incidence of dental fluorosis.
Artificially fluoridating municipal water supplies to 1 part per million is far below the concentration that will induce fluorosis. The decay prevention benefit accrues almost exclusively to the child population whose teeth are forming but is of negligible benefit to the adult. <<
Oh thank you for being the voice of reason here!!!!
It’s like the ADA recommending we all get rid of our old fillings. Who does that work? Not the local mechanic, a dentist. They make huge bucks with these scares. The scrupulous dentist (as are most of them) told us to just forget about it.
My dentist is a good man who gives sound advice. I’ll trust him over the rumor mill.
You said artificially fluoridating water does not lead to fluorosis. This is not true. A review article by Mascarenhas published in 2000 in Pediatric Dentistry shows that fluorosis occurs from fluoridated water, alone.
>>Older children and adults risk SKELETAL fluorosis from too much fluoride. In fact, recently a 52-year-old American mans arthritic-like joint pain and immobility went away after he stopped brushing his teeth with fluoridated toothpaste, according to a study in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research<<
That’s a straw man.
I have been on flurodated water since I was a child. My dad was a salesman and I would brush my teeth in the car, swallowing the toothpaste.
I’m 47 and have no bone problems. What was that guy doing, eating toothpaste for breakfast???
“So are asbestos, hemlock, uranium, and poison ivy. Natural doesn’t mean safe.”
You forgot to include stupidity...
The ADA’s money comes from Procter & Gamble, Colgate, Johnson and Johnson and all those huge fluoride selling companies. They enable the ADA to be one of the most influential lobbying groups in the U.S. Organized dentistry uses our legal system to get laws passed that benefits themselves while taking welfare for the rich in the form of tuition and/or dental school subsidies.
Water fluoridation began over sixty years ago,then came fluoridated toothpaste, the ADA’s seal of approval, zillions of fluoridated products. Today tooth decay is a national crisis. Most dentists make three times as much as physicians while working fewer days and hours doing less critical work. Fluorosis rates are climbing which dentists will cover at a cost up to tens of thousands of dollars. And fluoridated toothpaste manufacturing has become a multi-billion international market.
Meanwhile, dentists are so rich tht 80% of them refuse Medicaid patients - who need their care the most. 108 million Americans don’t have dental insurance.
At the same time, organized dentistry blocks any other group from filling their void. They now have a monopoly on fixing teeth. But Dental Therapists can get trained in two years to do the same thing more cheaply and as effectively as dentists. They do in other developed countries.
However, organized dentistry with their corporate dollars gets legislators to do their bidding which includes lobbying against any group that threatens their lucrative monopoly.
“GOOGLE is at the end of your fingers.”
How about you take your finger and Google yourself...
The citation of this 1960s era liberal propaganda film is evidence that FR is infested with people who have no connection with the conservatism of the recent past as represented by the likes of Russell Kirk or Milton Friedman. In fact, they are merely Kennedy-Johnson era liberals, who got off the Democrat bus due to their dissent on social issues like abortion or gay rights.
Your post is filled with rot.
This looks like it was written by a conspiracy driven chairside assistant.
If you were ever a medical biller, you would know why Medicaid patients are turned away. They go on to Hospitals with Dental programs for the poor (Cleveland’s Metro General is one - I had teeth filled there when I was without money myself) People are billed on a sliding scale.
So what if 108 million Americans don’t have dental insurance? I didn’t for years and made payments. In fact most dentists and doctors for that matter, cut a break to those who DON’T have insurance. Saves them administrative costs.
Sorry you have a problem with the Dental industry. I don’t.
Just because you had no problems doesn’t mean someone else can’t be so harmed by fluoride. It also doesn’t mean that everyone will be harmed by fluoride.
Skeletal fluorosis symptoms mimic arthritic symptoms and irritable bowel symtoms - two very prevalent US problems. But probably no US trained doctors even think to question fluoride use as a link
About this man with the fluoride pain in his nec, he
drank no fluoridated water, tea or wine; had no occupational fluoride exposure; did not chew tobacco, inhale snuff, cook with Teflon pots, use fluoridated mouthwash or get fluoride treatments at twice-yearly dentist visits. But he brushed before and after all meals
(minimum 6 times daily) with fluoridated toothpaste.
Additionally, “The combination of gastric
problems, difficulty in swallowing, leg muscle pain, and pain in the
knee and hip joints is a key indicator of fluoride toxicity, and
patients using high-concentration home fluoride treatments should be
monitored for these symptoms,” is reported in the January 2005
Journal of the American Dental Association.
I think it’s put up as a joke.
Yeah and Nutra-Sweet causes Lupus like symptoms.
I know cause my cousin’s uncle’s neighbor’s best friend stop drinking Diet Coke and her Lupus was cured in a day!
“Children from the age of 6-months to 3-years should not have more than one-quarter milligram of fluoride per day. Brushing the teeth of a 2-year-old twice a day will expose the child to about one-half milligram, exceeding the allowable [daily] limits [from toothpaste alone], writes Dincer.”
Um, why would anyone brush their baby’s or toddler’s teeth with ANY fluoridated toothpaste? They make non-fluoride toothpaste and it clearly states on the package why small children should NOT use fluoride toothpaste. Duh.
You siad: “Um, why would anyone brush their babys or toddlers teeth with ANY fluoridated toothpaste? They make non-fluoride toothpaste and it clearly states on the package why small children should NOT use fluoride toothpaste. Duh.”
Some people believe what their dentists tell them. The American Dental Association says two-years and younger shouldn’t use fluoridated toothpaste which makes one assume it’s safe for three year olds which it isn’t
Also the ADA tells parents who don’t live in fluoridated communities to give their children fluoride supplements to eat when they are six months old, which is counter-intuitive.
Then they advise putting fluoride varnish on babies teeth at soon as they emerge. Varnish contains a hugely toxic 26,000 parts per million fluoride (toothpaste has 1,000 ppm)
>> When it comes to a choice between dental care and keeping the lights on or putting food on the table, advocates say, dental care is usually the first to go. http://www.ct.gov/dph/cwp/view.asp?a=3138&q=410264. <<
Phew!!!
Good thing they have flouride in the water to protect those budding teeth!!!!!
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